I remember when my boss's boss called me into his office. I grabbed a pen and notepad and he said "you won't need that" and my heart sank. He closed the door, cleared his throat, and tried to set me up on a date with his son.🫠

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

I think it is incredibly clear that there is a rearguard vanguard of extremely socially conservative people who are desperate to convince everyone that they want to do what they were genetically born/predisposed to do,barbaric/outdated social norms I think we have to stop this vanguard at all costs

persian chicken with mouthwatering sauce

Which is also -- and it's extremely odd how the entire tradition just sort of collectively pretends this isn't the case -- a perfect one-sentence summary of the Iliad.

[bitching hat] this is kind of a perfect example of all my frustrations with "china hands" and other kinds of foreign policy "experts"--an intensely narrow perspective, a focus on the short term, on the personal, an inability to think in historical perspective www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lrv...

Carve it on your heart: when they say they hate "liberal feminists", they mean they hate women

Look in the Iliad men knew how to follow orders, you didn’t see them get into screaming fights about who got to keep what plunder and then just going and sulking in their tents when they didn’t get their way

This is what I imagine it's like being in the military right now.

one of the funniest things about all this is that when you read about the history of men and warfare it is an endless series of internecine feuds between the biggest fucking prima donnas you've ever heard of

Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”

estrogen didn't save her 😩

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

the issue with andrews is that her argument--"the great feminization" is a civilizational emergency that is going to destroy the west--is wildly out of step with her proposal "we should change antidiscrimination law somewhat" because what she really thinks is so repugnant she won't say it out loud

one of the best to ever do it

'85 year old retires' should not be a remarkable headline. She served long, honorably, and mostly well, I hope she gets to have a happy and active retirement.

they have sown the wind, and now they are reaping the whirlwind: behold

"Now that war comes to you, you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent car-loads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot, to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace"

it is genuinely disturbing how central rape is to reactionaries today. "In the act of rape the natural order is restored both physically and mentally. Women return to their reproductive role and they like it. Men are dominant again. And everyone is so happy about it."

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The abscess grows from the earth. The dagger meets my virginal flesh and I nurture the egg with my own blood. The atmosphere swirls a sickening red, green, black. A haze of plague. The long-slumbering god emerges from the pustule-egg. I kneel in praise. we finally stopped woke 😎

"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands." hold up. tell me more about that

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

but seriously I think if there's one thing for bsky progressives -- much more than "the left" really -- to take from Zohran it's this you can't lead with your chin saying stuff that makes you feel good about whatever topic, you fine-tune that message to death and you drive it home

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s so normal and so many people are so weird about him. And it becomes really hard to miss the fact it’s mostly because he’s Muslim

if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners

as @bretdevereaux.bsky.social wrote immediately after j6, the very clear lesson from the ancient republics is that you have GOT to aggressively punish the LEADERS of coups and putsches... because otherwise those fuckers just come back and try again acoup.blog/2021/01/15/m...

The psychic wage of hierarchy is, imo, the #1 obstacle to democracy worldwide

the 2028 democratic party is going to be 50% DSA and 50% CIA at this rate

we should use ai to heaven ban billionaires from interacting with actual society

They thought "mass deportations" meant millions of cartel members getting shipped out, but now they're starting to realize that if Trump is going after random grandmas it's because either (A) there aren't millions of cartel members or (B) Trump is choosing not to deport them (and both are Bad).

Make Sliwa Commissioner of Parades, let's gooooooo

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

I suspect that the revolt of the bosses element of all this really is explained by: a bunch of upper echelon Americans really didn't like the cultural and workplace changes induced by Woke era, some portion of them were pushed into internet insanity, but most just wanted a shift slightly right....

Well, well, well It appears our victory is complete. Goodnight, friends. Enjoy the feeling

I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏

obviously the nimbys of the world continue to fight a desperate rearguard action, but it's amazing how much the winds have changed on housing policy... mostly through the relentless ideological agitation and political activism of yimbys

All the pro-housing props in NYC passed by wide margins. We're gonna build some fucking *houses* under Mayor Mamdani.

Thinking about the Statue of Liberty's full name being "Liberty Illuminating the World" tonight, and about a detail that's easy to miss- her foot crushes a broken shackle and chain.

i'm deeply glad he won but i do want to note that these are not exactly results that suggest that populist socialism is an instant win button in national politics

what if republicans basically are entirely bouyed by donald trump, specifically, being on the ballot and currently not president

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"

ah, america

Expect a whole lot of bitching from the GOP about how Jones winning proves Dems are all violent crooks as if they haven’t been calling us demonic pedophiles who deserve the noose for years and didn’t actually engage in political violence to overturn an election

Loudoun County, in northern Virginia, was the sign of apocalypse twelve months ago for Democrats. Most of the vote just came in. (AP estimates 79%.) Spanberger up 26%. (And Jay Jones up 15%.) Four years ago, McAuliffe won it by just 11% on his way to a 2% loss.

"Radical Liberalism?": @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com with Alex Zakaras, on our Neon Liberalism podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

Yeah, if you don't want political violence you should probably not tear the social contract apart, creating a state of Warre

I don’t understand the people who say “GET OFF TWITTER, ELON IS USING THE ALGORITHM TO CONTROL YOUR MIND” - then turn around and scoff at the idea that TikTok, a vastly larger app that is far more heavily built around an algorithm, might also be influencing people’s views.

James was really cooking here othermeans.io/p/theres-no-...